Pirate RN

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1. Which nurse do you want for your Little Johnny?

   Pirate RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   Healthcare institutions want to be profitable businesses, but few take advantage of their true strengths. It's understandable that management tries to reduce costs whenever/wherever possible. Cost reductions generally appear on the bottom line. Howev...

2. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

   Pirate RN replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

   For the relatively few moments required, I simply live in their reality with them- speaking cordially to people that I cannot see, stirring pots on an invisible stove at their request, and answering a phone that isn't really ringing, just to name a ...

3. working nurses that started late in life

   Pirate RN replied to momt5's topic in General Nursing

   I celebrated my 57th birthday two days before graduation this past December, so it CAN be done! I won't tell you that nursing school was easy nor that my first job on a telemetry unit is either... however, nursing is already the most rewarding thing ...